# Trevor Haddon artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/trevor-haddon/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:48:05.309Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Illustration

## About Trevor Haddon

Trevor Haddon is the commonly used name of Arthur Trevor Haddon (1864–1941), a British painter who also worked as an illustrator. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF connect the two name forms, helping distinguish his work from similarly named artists. Surviving institutional records emphasize painting, particularly portraiture and figurative subjects. Art UK documents portraits of identified sitters as well as works such as Two Arabs in a Quffa, with examples held by collections including the Ashmolean Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Balliol College, Kelmarsh Hall, and the Norris Museum. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, works on paper, prints, or published illustration material. No movement or school has been assigned here because the collected sources do not establish one reliably. When researching a possible Haddon work, the full name, life dates, medium, subject, inscription, and provenance provide useful identity checks.

## Common works and media

Institutional holdings support portrait painting as a recurring part of Haddon's work, including portraits of named public and private figures. Figurative scenes also appear in the documented record. Auction and appraisal contexts may additionally include works on paper, prints, and illustration-related material. Because these formats can differ substantially in purpose, scale, condition, and authorship evidence, paintings should not be valued directly against prints or published illustrations without close comparison.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction index covers Trevor Haddon results across paintings and works on paper, with records spanning 2001–2026 in the collected snapshot. Comparable sales are most useful when the medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, and attribution closely match the object being assessed. Portraits should be compared with portraits of similar scale and finish rather than with unrelated figurative scenes or illustrations. Signatures and inscriptions require contextual examination; a name alone does not establish authorship. Provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, restoration, surface condition, and the reporting of buyer fees can also change how a result should be interpreted. Public auction records offer a market reference point, but they do not replace object-specific authentication and condition review.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are reviewed separately so that auction-name matches do not, by themselves, establish authorship.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/haddon-arthur-trevor-18641941
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95847986/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16856391
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/trevor-haddon/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Trevor_Haddon